Nebraska cigar smokers 1 : non smokers 0

[calhounhusker]

Gov. Dave Heineman has signed a bill that would exempt cigar bars from the statewide smoking ban set to take effect in June. Under the bill (LB355), only cigars, not cigarettes, could be smoked in cigar bars.

And to be considered a cigar bar, at least 10 percent of a bar's sales would have to come from cigars and other tobacco and tobacco-related products -- not including cigarettes.

Heineman signed the measure on Wednesday morning.

Some opponents think the bill's on shaky legal ground, because it amounts to a special, unnecessary favor for cigar bars, one that conflicts with the reason for the ban: to promote public health. Attorney General Jon Bruning's office disagrees. The exemption won't go into effect until September.

I think I will go celebrate with a cigar. :smokingbo

 

[cigarguy71]

I hope it works out in your favor bro.

 

[hdroadglide]

just like in mo. it's appearantly not a health hazard to smoke in a casino, but is in any other public place!! however, there is now something going around that says the k.c. no smoking law, as well as some other mo cities, may be overturned because they go against some state statute!

 

[calhounhusker]

just like in mo. it's appearantly not a health hazard to smoke in a casino, but is in any other public place!! however, there is now something going around that says the k.c. no smoking law, as well as some other mo cities, may be overturned because they go against some state statute!

Yeah, it'll be nice to have a place thats open after 8pm here that we can smoke a cigar at. Granted, this bill only affects like 5-6 places in Nebraska but one of them is Cigarros, which is open till 1am.

 

[hdroadglide]

good old nebraska. they make you wear a motorcycle helmet too.

 

[flathead59]

I hadn't realized that the ciganazis had gotten a state wide ban passed. I was living in Lincoln when they passed the city ordinance, and it killed the Keno places. The state lost like 3.5 million dollars in revenue the first year, or some silly number like that.

 

[terrantheman]

I love NE, congrats! Can't wait to have to go to NE I know I'm in good hands.

 

[BGC]

Hope that works out for you guys.

 

[Moro]

Congratulations, Nebraska!!! Well deserved and even better played!